Word: treating
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...West." One writer told Solzhenitsyn to his face that "Cancer Ward makes you throw up when you read it," and urged Solzhenitsyn to follow the critic's own example: "I always try to write only about happy things." Replied Solzhenitsyn: "The task of the writer is to treat universal and eternal themes: the mysteries of the heart and conscience, the collision between life and death, the triumph over spiritual anguish." He told his accusers with bitter humor that he knew very well what such views could mean for him. "I am alone, my slanderers are hundreds," he said. "Naturally...
Granting the value of such a code of behaviour, how is one to put it into practice? One person's isolated resolve to treat his next outing with the opposite sex as a shared endeavor would be instantly misunderstood and ridiculed. Such an action constitutes too violent a rejection of the generally accepted value-system of this society. No matter if the courtesy of paying for the girl turns out to be malignant, no one person can make a dent in the established way of doing things. Imagine going up to the average slick Cliffie intimating that...
...statesman. The son of a prominent New York physician, Gruening earned an M.D. at Harvard Medical School but abandoned that profession to become a newsman. At 27 he was managing editor of the Boston Traveler, one of the first editors in the country to demand that his writers treat Negroes fairly in their stories. At the end of World War I he became managing editor of The Nation, used the magazine's liberal platform to rail against U.S. imperialism in Nicaragua, Haiti and the Dominican Republic, and champion recognition of Mexico's revolutionary Obregon regime...
Americans have really always known this. There are various ways of looking at history: as fate, as chance, as an opponent to be outwitted or a force from which to hide. Americans treat it, at least in part, as a problem to be mastered. Call it pride or pragmatism, on this fundamental belief the U.S. was founded and still stands-that men need not be victims...
...Southern states has grown more moderate, partly because of the increasing Negro vote and partly because the Republicans and George Wallace have drawn off the most conservative elements. The remaining loyalists had nowhere to go but to Humphrey, who as Vice President had taken the trouble to visit and treat with Southern leaders, even Maddox...